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by jwecker 16y ago
I admit I haven't done any research on it, but I've always assumed that it's a pretty easy problem if you're talking about relatively static content-driven pages, but I've always assumed that when it comes to highly interactive web apps it
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by jwecker 16y ago
Meh, I was hoping for blog headlines like: "Cuban Cigars- worth the hype?" "Western Society - I mean, seriously" "Now THIS is a hand-made boat you could emigrate in!" etc...
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by jwecker 16y ago
Hmm... define dead? I see a lot of cool programming concepts and computer science coming together in Perl 6- too much for me to know how to use it effectively or rationally. To me Perl is going from terse parsing and glue language to som
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by jwecker 16y ago
Well _I_ thought it was witty enough. cheers (:
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by jwecker 16y ago
You can download it by going to justin.tv from your android or here: http://www.justin.tv/p/android . Looking forward to seeing what people do with this live. Ammon flew his phone from a kite the other day http://www.justin.tv/ammonb/b
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Justin.tv Broadcasts Live From Your Android Phone(techcrunch.com)
33 points by jwecker 16y ago|8 comments
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by jwecker 16y ago
I doubt there's a correlation. Facebook is engineer-driven and was founded to solve a social problem. And the problem google solved was borderline social. Don't mean to be argumentative- I just think that it's a choice that leadership te
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by jwecker 16y ago
I'm not as dubious. Unlike someone's random blog entry, the NYT does do fact-checking, and had at least one source they deemed reliable, as per TFA: "The comments caught the attention of Skype executives who became concerned about their ne
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by jwecker 16y ago
I would also recommend quickly getting in the habit of using ctrl-[ instead of reaching clear over (on most keyboards) for the escape key.
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by jwecker 16y ago
I'm not sure what his definition of intelligence is. Obviously not the same as mine. He states that the reason "triumphalists" annoy him so much is that he used to be one- and then goes on to explain himself programming something very uni
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by jwecker 16y ago
Best story of a lawyer trying to run a software startup (Loki). http://web.archive.org/web/20020418225227/http://www.linuxan... Not for the feint of heart.
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by jwecker 16y ago
Similarly- it's idiomatic in bash scripting and very common (execute the first command and the second if the first one succeeds). I think it's funny that he naively assumes that because it's unfamiliar to him it must be the less-clear way
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by jwecker 16y ago
The vast majority of the difference in that particular comparison is housing- which must apply to buying houses, because comparing rents certainly doesn't give 45% difference. So... this data is meaningless unless you own your house here
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by jwecker 16y ago
If I'm reading this report right there are several that hit 97% with low false positives. http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/av... The methodology is linked in the document. I mean, it's certainly at least less o
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by jwecker 17y ago
yes. I don't mind dups in general- good to get a refresher once in a while- but when it wasn't even a whole month ago...
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by jwecker 17y ago
7. Put change in their cup- or go the extra mile and help them find a job. (journalists reading- I mean this in good humor ;)
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by jwecker 17y ago
You know that unless something fundamental changes with how congress is extending copyrights, this never happens these days, right?
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by jwecker 17y ago
The _kids_ need sleep as well. One thing we realized was that the constant waking up was not just difficult for us but seemed to put strain on the baby as well. After a usually very short adjustment (3 days or so) our babies would sleep t
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by jwecker 17y ago
I agree except the utterly mundane. It's mildly interesting to see how the government does threat analysis. The wikileaks summary on the first page implies that the government actually tried to carry out a contingency plan to get rid of wi
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by jwecker 17y ago
Whoops, assumptions about linux actually. When using ubuntu I always turn off the top bar first thing. Most of the people I know that use ubuntu do the same, but I have no idea if it's representative. I turn it off specifically because t
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by jwecker 17y ago
I may have confused the issue. It's not about the flick of the mouse- it's about not having to aim (e.g., can you perform this action using your peripheral vision?). It sounds like you've become accustomed to aiming at everything and ther
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by jwecker 17y ago
Not only is this a violation of Fitt's law- it's practically the canonical example of how to violate it. That is, when an application is maximized the exact upper corners of the screen become incredibly valuable because a user can get ther
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by jwecker 17y ago
Larger exposition. This has been on the most emailed in nytimes for at least a day now so a lot of you may have already seen it. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11schmidt.html There are certainly reasons to be skeptical. In a
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by jwecker 17y ago
Some of this is fine, if a bit dogmatic (but what do you expect from a manifesto). However the section on SEO is a potentially bad idea. It seems borderline black-hat and very similar to cloaking.
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by jwecker 17y ago
Actually I think it moves away from philosophy at this point and becomes a question of practicality- at what point in a detailed copy is it "close enough to be you"? As humans (and with the rest of life) we're in that weird state between
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by jwecker 17y ago
Just the other day I watched a very experienced programmer who already had an IRB session open (not to mention a bash shell and the availability of a python repl, I'm sure) start up that very calculator to do some quick calculations. While
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by jwecker 17y ago
Nice Arram, thanks. I was just thinking the other day about how nice it would be if more people spent time once in a while refining their thoughts into an essay rather than barfing up conjectures as blog posts. Interestingly, it may be tha
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Go language "Issue 9" finally bumped to page 2(code.google.com)
1 points by jwecker 17y ago|0 comments
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by jwecker 17y ago
The post spends a lot of time talking about flash not utilizing / partially utilizing / fully utilizing graphics cards and makes a lot of conclusions and even takes a dig at apple about it. But then never bothers to ask the same questions
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by jwecker 17y ago
“73primenumbers is a refreshing model of humility in an industry ruled by hype and buzz.” Worth it for that quote alone. Thanks (:

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